my wife is suffering from alcoholism and it's destroying our lives.
I have known my wife since we were young teenagers, but we didn't get involved intimately until our thirties after we both experienced divorces. When she and I moved in together I was not aware that she was alcohol dependant, and it took me a long time to realize what was really going on. We have a one year old little girl together. I moved us all out to a very rural area as we both wanted to raise our daughter in the country away from the rush of the city, and this is when I realized just how bad her dependency problem was. She has to compulsively drive two hours to town and back every other day to buy alcohol. She can't buy larger quantities because she is compelled to continue drinking until she is completely out. She relentlessly searches for alcohol until she finds it, she has even stolen alcohol from the neighbors home. When she's drunk she becomes an emotional tsunami and attacks me both emotionally, verbally, and sometimes even physically. Right now I had to go out of town for three days and I'm a nervous wreck because she is drinking unsupervised alone with our daughter and texting me belligerent nonsense and cussing me out and being just absolutely insane. I'm losing my mind. She has demanded that we uproot our entire livelihood and move, and I am totally ok with that and have even already found another job and living situation in less than 24 hours, but now she's MIA, and I can't reach her.